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Dr. G. Daniel Lassiter, Professor of Psychology, was referenced in a July 13 New York Times op-ed piece by Jennifer L. Mnookin  on “Can a Jury Believe What It Sees?” LOS ANGELES — LAST week the F.B.I., the Drug Enforcement Administration and other federal law enforcement agencies instituted a policy […]

By Morgan Chaney ’10 Anthropology alum studying capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica “Morgan, Morgan, Morgan — are you there?” My radio’s staticky transmission cuts the serenity of the forest like a buzzsaw, startling me out of a meditative hike as I search for my troop. It’s been around seven hours since […]

Ohio University alum Dr. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan ’76PhD, who won a Nobel Prize in 2009, will give the Eugene P. Wigner Distinguished Lecture at Oak Ridge National Laboratories on July 28. Ramakrishnan earned a Ph.D. in Physics from Ohio University. Dr. Ramakrishnan is the joint head of the structural studies division […]

A July 9 Wall Street Journal article quotes Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, about the collapse of the for-profit Corinthian Colleges Inc. WASHINGTON—The collapse of Corinthian Colleges Inc. is raising questions about the Obama administration’s aggressive handling of one of the country’s largest for-profit […]

Stephen Moore quoted Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, in a Heritage Foundation article on “Obama’s Economy: Where Did All The Young Workers Go?” Economists are scratching their heads trying to figure out a puzzle in this recovery: Why are young people not working? People […]

By Aaron Brown and Mirco Reimer reprinted from American Diplomacy (Aaron Brown is a History Ph.D. candidate at Ohio University.) More than 20 years after leaving office, George Herbert Walker Bush finally seems to step out of Ronald Reagan’s shadow. While Bush the Elder never was a president who could […]

The Berlin (NH) Daily Sun reports that Joel Wyatt is entering Ohio University’s doctoral program in Clinical Psychology in the College of Arts & Sciences this fall. Joel Wyatt, son of James and Lucie Wyatt and grandson of Lorraine Croteau of Berlin, graduated from the University of New Hampshire as […]